<p>Can someone clear that up for me?
Sorry if it's a stupid question..</p>
<p>Me too lol.</p>
<p>What’s the confusion? You take the SAT, you pay collegeboard money, they send all your SAT 1 & SAT 2 scores to the colleges you list on collegeboard. Unlike, the ACT, you cannot score choice. You can cancel your SAT immediately after you take it, ie it won’t be in your permanent record, otherwise it will be send when you request the scores to be sent to college.</p>
<p>Yeah, but is there any point in me sending my scores until I actually start applying?</p>
<p>It’s free. Send them to your safeties.</p>
<p>My advice:</p>
<p>Don’t send scores yet, especially if this is your first time taking the test. You’ll still have to take it again if you didn’t do as well as you thought AND you’ll still take SAT II if you’re applying for competitive schools. Besides, you may not even be sure what schools you’re applying to in the fall. My advice is to send your SAT scores only to the four FREE slots they allow you right now. Send them to schools you’re pretty sure you will apply to. Don’t pay for extra score reports until you actually start applying</p>
<p>That’s true, only send the free scores. Wait until you apply for college before sending the non-free scores.</p>
<p>Okay. So here’s an example. I took the Subject Test today. I still have time to add recipients. I have also taken the SAT Reasoning Test but I am retaking it in June. If I choose to send the scores to schools from the Subject Tests I took today, is the report only going to send the scores of the tests I have already taken? Or does the fee cover any future SAT score reports as well?</p>
<p>So if I send the free scores, all it will do is open a file on me at the college the receives them?</p>
<p>the fee does NOT cover future SAT scores, just the scores as of right now. So in the future if you intend to take it again as you said, you’d have to pay again for those new scores sent</p>
<p>I waited to send my scores until I started applying. Why? Because my college decisions changed after the first time I took the SAT. However if you are dead-set on a certain college, there’s no harm in sending the scores now. It’s free to send them now anyways so you could go ahead and do it. Just remember that once you start applying to colleges, you will have to pay to have your scores sent.</p>
<p>Do they get sent immediately or do they still get sent when you apply?</p>
<p>If you request for them to be sent when you take the test, yes they are sent immediately. When you apply, you have to manually send them. In that case, you would just go online to Collegeboard and then log into MyOrganizer and then click where it says Send Scores and it will take you through the steps of sending them. You have to have an account with the Collegeboard to do that. You would just register to make your account. When you make your account, it may ask for your SAT test number or SSN or something that links you to your test scores (I forgot what they ask for).</p>
<p>Obviously if you are taking SAT’s multiple times it may pay to wait. If cost is not that critical I would wait until you know what you are doing for sure. Also, you are counting on the schools to keep track of them when you have not applied. I am sure most deal with this well, but we have seen stories on CC.</p>
<p>Yeah, but whats with the whole concept of “sending” the SAT score.
Cant we just send paper copies of the SAT score report directly to the university. They can verify the score if they wanted to. How difficult is it to just tell the university you actual score. Why does Collegeboard even need to intermediate?</p>
<p>I sent the free ones when I took SAT IIs in May of my junior year. The colleges I sent them to opened up files for me and I didn’t have to send them again when I applied in the fall. Yay for saving money :D</p>
<p>There’s no harm in sending the free ones. If you decide not to apply (which I did for one school), it’s not like they hunt you down or anything.</p>
<p>How does one choose the ACT scores to send?</p>
<p>Similar method for the ACT except I though their website format for sending the scores was annoying. You have to make an account, they ask for your test number and then you log in and there’s a link someplace that says Send Scores.</p>
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Schools will not accept a paper copy of scores from you. They want to see the official scores direct from collegeboard. And you have to have those scores sent to them and pay for them to be sent. Not the schools.</p>
<p>So you should probably wait for the last time you take the SATs to send them so that you have a full report.</p>